Lacing-loop.



No.'789,4t5(). PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

G. W. PRENTIGE.

LAOING LOOP! APPLICATION FILED MAY 6. 1904.

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Patented May 9, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. PRENTICE, ()F PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

LAClNG-LOOF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,.t50, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed May 6, 1904. Serial No. 206,688.

To all whmn/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PRENTICE, a citizen of the United States of America,.and a resident of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'Lacing-Loops, of which the following is a specification.

In United States Patent No. 7 57 ,679, granted to me April 19, 1904, I have shown and described a sheet-metal lacing-loop of novel construction, the same having an elongated loop member passing under the table or base and terminating in an attaching-prong.

In the improved sheet metal laeingloop forming the subject of the present application for United States Letters Patent the invention consists, essentially, of a pronged base or table member and an integral arch or loop member having its outer or free end portion disposed under and in engagement with said base, the said end portion being enlarged and adapted when in use to maintain the loop portion of the device in position In this invention the free end portion of the loop member thereof is unprovided with an attaching-prong, but instead is enlarged laterally and is practically locked and held in position between the attaching-prongs of the base. This construction forms a strong and eflieient lacing-loop and is adapted to be readily secured to ashoe by substantially the same means as are employed for attaching pronged button-fasteners to shoes.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1. represents a fiat sheet-metal blank from which the lacing-loop device is formed. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the lacing-loop. Fig. 3 is a corresponding side view. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of the device. Figs. 5. 6, and 7, corresponding with Figs. 1, 2, and 3, show the lacing-loop having slightly-modilied attaching-prongs. Fig. 8 represents a modified form of the blank, and Fig. 9 is a side elevation of thelacing-loop made therefrom.

In producing my improved lacing-loop device m the flat sheet-metal blank a, from which it is formed, consists of a table portion (0', having oppositely -disposed members (0 adapted to be bent downwardly to form attaching.- prongs, and the lateral extension 5, having its outer or free end portion 6 enlarged, substantially as represented. In Fig. 8 the member 6 extends parallel or longitudinally of the base.

In the process of transforming or converting the blank a. into the lacing-loop m the prongs a may be pointed or sharpened, while at the same time the intermediate or neck portion of the said member 6 is crimped or grooved longitudinally and bent upwardly and rearwardly to form the closed arch or loop d, the end portion .7) then extending under the base a, all as clearly shown. The opposite sides of the end portion 7) of the loop member Z) may be provided with short lugs c c, as indicated in Fig. 1. These, when the blank is formed into the complete lacing-loop m, are arranged to lie in the space between the adjacent pairs of prongs (0 (see Figs. 2, 3, and 4,) thereby not only preventing the loop cl from moving laterally, but also interlocking the parts together.

The lacing-loop made from the blank a, Fig. 5, is substantially the same as the one just described. In the former the opposite end portions of the base a are provided each with a single prong a while in the other case two prongs are represented.

The manner of attaching the improved lacing-loop m to shoes, &c., is or may be substantially the same as that employed in attaching other tyes of pronged fasteners to shoesas, for examplepronged button-fasteners. That is to say, upon closing the jaws of a suitable implement in which the lacing-loop device is mounted the prongs (fare forced downwardly through the leather or pliable material of the shoe, thereby bending and clenching them thereunder in a well-known manner.

I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, the one-piece sheet-metal lacing-loop device, substantially as hereinbefore described, the same comprising a base or table member having attachingprongs depending therefrom,

over the top of the device, andhaving the outer or free-end portion of said arch member lying flatwise against the under side of said base and at the same time practically filling or covering the area of the latter.

2. The herein-described improved sheetmetal lacing-loop, the same comprising a flat base or table member having attaching-prongs depending from each end thereof, a closed arch or loop member integral With said base having its free end disposed flatwise under the base and provided with lateral lugs, 0, located in the space formed between the adjacent pairs of attaching-prongs, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

3. The one-piece sheet-metal lacing-loop 

